The highlight of this week's action at the Coliseum was Pratt's reenactment of Scott Hatteberg's ninth-inning pinch-hit home run on Sept. 4, 2002.

'They said, 'No matter what, if it's in fair territory, act like it's a home run,' " Iserson told the Chron. "His first swing was a weak broken-bat groundball and everyone rushed out there like it went into the fifth row."

The crowd went wild when Pitt and Hill took the field, with the latter grabbing a microphone and telling the fake fans a few jokes.

This project, an adaptation of Michael Lewis' groundbreaking book, "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game," has been a long time coming and has been left for dead on more than one occasion.

With a cast that includes the likes of Pitt, Hill, Pratt, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright and ex-Major Leaguer Royce Clayton, Bennett Miller directing and a script by Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillian, there's every reason to believe it could be that incredibly rare thing: a truly great baseball movie.